"In an interview today with Linux-Watch, controversial Linux leader Kevin Carmony confirmed rumors that he had resigned as CEO of desktop Linux vendor Linspire on July 31. Carmony said he plans to work on several of his own business projects, and on Mitt Romney's presidential campaign."

"And everyone seems to forget about the Free Software version of Freespire (there are two versions of Freespire) that has no proprietary stuff." No, we DON'T forget about that version. Part of the tumult that KC and the Sunshine Boys precipitated arose when said KC decided to discontinue the OSS-only version of Freedows because "nobody was interested in it." Check the Freedows forums searching for OSS version discontinued to catch a few threads about it.